12 februari: “The policy of the administration is not regime change, President Aristide is the elected president of Haiti.”

17 februari: “We cannot buy into a proposition that says the elected president must be forced out of office by thugs and those who do not respect law and are bringing terrible violence to the Haitian people.”

26 februari: “He (Aristide) is the democratically elected president, but he has had difficulties in his presidency, and I think (…) whether or not he is able to effectively continue as president is something that he will have to examine.”

27 februari: “(He should) examine the situation he is in and make a careful examination of how best to serve the Haitian people at this time”.

29 februari: “(Arisitide was) an individual who may have been elected democratically but was not governing effectively or democratically”.

Tja. Zoals The Guardian zei over dat laatste: “Were it not for the fact that Aristide has at least won a couple of elections, Powell could have been talking about President Bush.”